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The Ice-Maiden with the Tiger Tattoo
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| 17 Aug 2012
| Amanda Crum
Posted on 08/17/2012 11:09:05 PM PDT by rjbemsha
The Ice-Maiden is the most famous Pazyryk (Siberian culture probably related to the Scythians) mummy yet found. She died at about the age of 25. Buried clothed in luxurious wild silk, her body was perfectly preserved in perma-frost. But it is the tattoos that set Pazyryk burials apart. “Compared to all tattoos found by archeologists around the world, those on the mummies of the Pazyryk people are the most complicated and the most beautiful,” according to the lead researcher, Dr. Natalia Polosmak.
TOPICS: History; Science
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; godsgravesglyphs; icemaiden; mummy; pazyryk; pazyrykculture
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Example of the Ice-Maiden's tattoos.
One artist's reconstruction of the Ice-Maiden's face 
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posted on
08/17/2012 11:09:15 PM PDT
by
rjbemsha
To: rjbemsha
Pretty cool, but she’s going to regret it when she’s 2500 years old and all saggy.
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posted on
08/17/2012 11:20:23 PM PDT
by
Yardstick
To: rjbemsha
I’ve tried, but I just don’t dig chicks with tattoos.
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posted on
08/17/2012 11:20:29 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: rjbemsha
Nice tats, who’s the artist?
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posted on
08/17/2012 11:22:20 PM PDT
by
roylene
(Salvation the great Gift of Grace.)
To: Salamander; SunkenCiv; Slings and Arrows; JoeProBono; Markos33
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posted on
08/17/2012 11:23:23 PM PDT
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: Yardstick
Does she have a tramp stamp?
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posted on
08/17/2012 11:28:36 PM PDT
by
BerryDingle
(I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
To: rjbemsha
The middle one kinda looks like a capricorn leaping or back flipping over a milkyway dragon/salamander.
The lower one looks to be unfinished, or the dismembered remains of the goat after the dragon caught it.
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posted on
08/17/2012 11:28:51 PM PDT
by
rawcatslyentist
(I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a Barack 0b0tt0my!)
To: roylene
Slick Wiilie will probably want to hit on her.
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posted on
08/17/2012 11:34:33 PM PDT
by
DISCO
To: rjbemsha; SunkenCiv; shibumi; Slings and Arrows
To: shibumi
"If you wanted to see them, you only had to ask!"
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posted on
08/17/2012 11:44:32 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: rjbemsha
I guess those are “tribal tattoos”.
I got “old school” style tattoo last month on my arm.
I picked a font (Raphael) I liked for “Deborah” (my daughter).
Then I searched the web and found the rose I liked in the hybrid colors of red/yellow for love/joy, and a Queen Bee with a crown because Deborah in ancient Hebrew means wasp or bee. Under in flowing letters it says “be happy or I will make you happy”.
My wife says it reads “Be happy or I will make you nappy” but that is not true! If anything the “h” in Deborah is a tiny tick slanted but I told the tattoo artist (who is young) that I got a weird arm and we laughed about it.
Next year I want to get a full back tattoo. That is going to be fun to design. Something patriotic.
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posted on
08/18/2012 12:23:33 AM PDT
by
Berlin_Freeper
(Siri: Paul Ryan 2016)
To: Berlin_Freeper
I got out of bed, moved from the iPad3 to the desktop... had to happen sooner or later.
Deborah :)
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posted on
08/18/2012 12:47:31 AM PDT
by
Berlin_Freeper
(Siri: Paul Ryan 2016)
To: shibumi; rjbemsha
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posted on
08/18/2012 1:05:40 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
To: Berlin_Freeper
Whenever I see tattoos I’m reminded of the German socialist death camps and lampshades. But then I’m from the old school where we were taught about such things.
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posted on
08/18/2012 1:53:38 AM PDT
by
fella
("As it was before Noah, so shall it be again.")
To: shibumi
They look vaguely Pictish.
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posted on
08/18/2012 2:19:44 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(Snakes. It had to be snakes.)
To: SIDENET
I’ve tried to dig guys who don’t dig chicks with tattoos but I just can’t.
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posted on
08/18/2012 2:20:52 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(Snakes. It had to be snakes.)
To: Berlin_Freeper
That’s the most beautiful paternal threat I’ve ever seen...:)
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posted on
08/18/2012 2:24:14 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(Snakes. It had to be snakes.)
To: Salamander
Of course they are.
They depictish a tiger.
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posted on
08/18/2012 2:28:13 AM PDT
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
To: shibumi
Ugh.
[and damn my eyes if I see any freaking tiger...a horse and some spotted amphibian thing, yeah]
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posted on
08/18/2012 2:35:56 AM PDT
by
Salamander
(Snakes. It had to be snakes.)
To: Salamander
Spotted amphibian?
Like maybe a ~~~sal-a-man-der```?
Maybe she’s like your great great great great great great great great great great great great great GrandMander.
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posted on
08/18/2012 2:41:40 AM PDT
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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